Geez... a couple of cry-babies...Just fooling around with you young turks. Nothing to be overly concerned about... it wasn't even a slam on Dan in the first place. It was more of a comment on MY flagrant popularity... or lack of it.

Read the comment again, Justin...

And you can dry your eyes, Dan... I will still do the 24 hour comic with you someday, if you'll have me.

I'd be using a differing style if I choose to do the project with Dan. There's just no way I could pop off 24 finished pages with the amount of detail I use for my "Pugilist" stories. Perhaps I'll just use my thumbnail style to actually serve as super-loose finishes...

I already have a small kernel of a story idea I'd like to do for the project... but perhaps having any forethought regarding the 24 hour comic is tantamount to cheating. If so, I'll just come up with something on the fly when the time comes.

Greg:Yeh, I was gonna suggest maybe doing each page as a 1"x1" square! It'd just be a really mini mini-comic!

I don't think it's a cheat if you use an idea you've got prior to sitting down to actually work on the 24-hour comic. It'll be hard enough to actually do that much drawing in the first place - a little forethought should be allowed. Hey, there really shouldn't be that many restrictions to this - it's not a contest.

Here is the link to the "official rules" and McLeod's suggestions. He suggests instead of having it be an experiment in how minimal you can get (a natural impulse that everyone tries to do), instead see how much you can actually put into each panel. He says you can think about it beforehand, but recommends improvisation if you are up to it.http://www.scottmccloud.com/inventions/24hr/dare/dare.html

Cam and I decided to do the project a couple of months before we actually did it, so I couldn't help but come up with a bunch of ideas before hand. Just having the daunting challenge of staying up for 24 hours will produce ideas in your head prior to the day. But when it came down to the actual day, it was all improvised. I think it's better that way because if you plan out a story beforehand, it might be hard to plan out the exact 24 pages, and there will be fewer surprises story-wise. Either way it's hard, but if you don't plan it, it keeps the whole process interesting; and might help keep you awake.

My feeling is if you've got a basic idea...say, 'I'm gonna do a story with monsters on a remote island and there's gonna be robots and aliens' is enuf of a starting point...from there you can create whatever story or thematic device you'd like.

Good to hear you've got other work to keep you occupied, Greg...hopefully you'll be able to get back to more eye-ball gouging pencilling soon.

Thanks on the Kung Fu design..yeh, I get to do some cool stuff...alot of the stuff that's in for apparel is stuff I like to draw anyway, like muscle cars, skulls, dragons, etc. I've even worked in a Japanese die-cast robot toy boxer! (got a Mekanda Robo in that one...)